What's controversial about that statement? You want to work at the type of job where a half year absence (give or take) that wasn't coordinated in advance isn't inconvenient to the employer? Unless you work somewhere so big that you aren't noticed, or in a job so unskilled that pulling a replacement off the street in a short amount of time is easy, that's reality. If anything, it's recognition that women have value in the workplace.
By calling them an 'inconvenience' for something literally every country in the world offers? It's more like further evidence that employers view their workforce as something disposable rather than an asset. And then wonder why there is no loyalty from employees anymore.